
Marianne Gingher, Adventures in Pen Island
Season 12 Episode 1209 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
D. G. Martin interviews Marianne Gingher about her book, "Adventures in Pen Island"
She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, ’60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture .
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Marianne Gingher, Adventures in Pen Island
Season 12 Episode 1209 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, ’60s pop culture, writing workshops, and other amusing detours and distractions on the way to publication. She also shares her keen insights into the role of a Southern writer in American literary culture .
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